If you think about knitwear usually (even without knowing) you think about Pringle of Scotland and their classic srgyle twinsets. As you may recall, this is one of my favourite brands and as I LOVE knitwear it also is one of my everlasting inspirations. I mean, they have been doing this since 1815, these guys know their job. And for you to know what they are doing, I leave you some autumn 2012 looks to love.

Being in The Hobbit mood and thinking about Galdalf you cannot avoid thinking of Ian McKellen. SIR Ian McKellen. Can you imagine him young?Yes, Sir Ian McKellen was once young. And very stylish. So stylish that you can also wear that look and it still looks fresh four hundred years after he wore it.Yes, I do exaggerate.

I know I haven't posted like in a hundred years, but here I am! More tired than you can imagine, after singing the super long Christmas season of the OSM and now in the middle of the choir's own x-mas concerts AND at my job AND I've been drawing. It sounds like I'm some sort of communist hardworker.Anyway, during this concerts the orchestra played 3 numbers from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker suite, and even if it is FAR from being my favourite ballet the music definitely is one of my favourite ones. So, I've been thinking about the ballet and all those characters that dance only one piece, the few that appear during the whole ballet and (of course!) about the marvellous looks and costumes that every year are created for the many companies that dance it.And of course I made a few illustrations. But not only that. Since it's Christmas time and everyone wanna give presents I though that you all dear readers should have a nice little present: The Nutcracker illustrations are downloadable cards for you to print them and give them this season to anyone you want for FREE! Just click on the link under the preview images, download and print.

Apparently "oxblood" is an actual colour, it even has a Pantone code. And it is a very trendy one this season especially for menswear. It is the evolution of last autumn's burgundy but instead of a purple gaze this colour has a brownish-oxydized haze making it perfect for wearing it with brown instead of the usual black.

Everyone knows about Nicolas Ghesquière quiting his job in Balenciaga. The gossip says that he was quite sick of his job envioronment. Many say that he has quited a dream job, but I really cannot imagine what an aweful thing happened for him to finally decide to leave (he wasn't quite comfortable since a time ago), and I think we all can relate to that: you may have a job you like and be great at it, but if you don't feel comfortable there, you should do like Nicolas: leave before it's too late.

Anyway his job at the Balenciaga fashion house has been great since 1997 so this will be a big space to fill and I leave you some close ups from his lasts collections. Do you recognize them?

SO tomorrow is the big-so-much-expected opening of the H&M store here in Mexico City. The party was yesterday with all the fashionarity and awesomness of Solange Knowles as DJ. Anyway, do you already have shour shopping list? Well, I deffinitely have mine.God, I love this store.Take a look at the webpage (with all prices in mexican pesos).

There is a total lack of time in my days lately. But my favourite time of the year is comming: Halloween! This is very fast, and I leave you this comic by the legendary Kate Beaton. Visit her website Hark! A Vagrant.

martes, 2 de octubre de 2012

Bueno, bueno, ¿cuánto tiempo hace que publiqué alguna editorial de caballero? MUCHO tiempo. Hoy les dejo esta editorial en blanco y negro, con maquillaje casi-tatuaje y con movimientos dignos de bailar como loco.
¿No les recuerda una vieja campaña de Dior Homme?Well, well, how long have it been since I posted a menswear editorial? LONG time. Today I leave you this one in black and white photography, tattoo-like makeup and moves worth of dancing like a mad.Doesn't it make you think of some old Dior Homme ads?

Everyone knows I'm such a Patrick Wolf fan-from-hell. Well, he just got a new album of old songs in new versions. Wait, not only new versions, but acoustic versions. And it is SO beautiful!Lately I've been thinking about buying a tablet for digital illustration, so I'm testing one right now and, you know what? It's ADDICTIVE! Now I can't stop! And just mix my Patrick Wolf obsession with the new album and a tablet... you get a digital illustration.I'm thinking about drawing an illustration for each track in this album. This is track #4 "Vulture". Here I leave you with the original version and clic HERE for buying the album in iTunes.Listen to the full album and tell me: do you think it is as perfect as I think so?

Edeline Lee is a Canadian designer based in London, and (as many of the greatest) studied at Central Saint Martins (i'm dying of envy). Her womenswear collections are stunning and super clean, and her speciality is the blocking: colour blocking, fabric blocking, texture blocking... everything blocking.Here I leave you with her last collection, spring 2013 just presented in London.

At some moment in life I just fell in LOVE all Halloween-Día-de-Muertos stuff (I mean, I feel I need bone sparkes for cupcakes! I want EVERYTHING with skulls! Do know what I mean?). So, when I saw the autumn 2012 lookbook from the Japanese brand g.u. (the little sister of Uniqlo, and which is even CHEAPER) I started hyperventilating: The theme is "Fashion Monster" and if you mix the Halloween makeup with the brands mantra of "fashion with more freedom" you get the awesome styling of easy going, simple yet fashionable and super cheap garments.What do you think of this lookbook? Doesn't make you think that fashion is really funnier than we usually think?BTW the first girl is the famous Japanese singermodelblogger Kyari Pamyu Pamyu, who is the MASTER of extreme-super-kawai styling. What I'm writing doesn't make sense again. Sorry about that ;)

So tomorrow is the Fashion Night Out here in Mexico City. Ther will be lots of activities in Antara, the Mazarik boutiques and Palacio de Hierro Perisur (go NOW to Vogue.mx and read moré about this) and it will be a super fun night.
Sadly I won't be able to go anywhere so you all have the obligation to go everywhere and have fun for me: dress your best clothes, wear comfy shoes and buy kickass stuf. And for you to do that here I leave you the activities agenda at Palacio de Hierro. I wish I could make my own Clinique Chubby Stick!

How should you, my good fashionable gentleman, look like all day long? Well, this editorial gives you an idea with a whole day spent at the park.My favourite look? Deffinitely the one with the printed blazer and bermudas.

Listening to my iPod I found out that there's a lot of korean music I like and that many of my friends might also like a lot. A LOT. Even though their brains might melt, I'm sure they'll enjoy it. And if they don't, they should pretend.Anyway, I though it'd be a good idea to make a single k-music suggestion according to my blogger friends' style and then look if my theory is correct while this turns into some kind of blogroll. Let's start.

WAIT there's a warning: all this music might or might not melt your brain and then you wont stop singing-dancing-clapping. Yes, all that is a very long word.

Originally a "gentleman" was a man of noble birth, and nowadays we enjoy with the courteousness of this original meaning and mix it with the eccentricity that we all enjoy (but many rather not wear). I loved this editorial with the gorgeous Johnny Harrignton with his odd gromming: beard, moustache and long hair. He looks like taken from another time when all colours were darker and the garments men wore has an special meaning and ocassion to wear. All these classic clothes that even my grandfather might wear and some touches of those accesories that men no longer wear as a daily basis create with the the lighting and the beard a powerful portrait of the eccentric gentleman we all like to imagine.Do you love it as much as I do?

Just watched this british film about the romance between John Keats and Fanny Brawne (for whom Keats wrote the famous poem that gives the title of the movie), and I fell in love with all the atmosphere in it: the light, the colours, the fabrics, the textures, the plants and even the walls. Just so beautiful.What I love the most are the silent outside shots of wide gardens full of flowers and trees, and the wonderful way the masculine and feminine characters are visually different in their own spaces: the men's rooms are dark with wooden walls and they also wear such colours: all in navy, dark green, brown, black. The women's rooms are full of light, white in colour, sheer fabrics. There also are two children in the movie, they both dress in neutral colours, beige, grey, white and camel and perfectly mix with the men's and the women's spaces in the same way, but their proper space are the outdoors: the flower fields and the trees in the garden.Everything in this film is so pretty, that I want my life to look like that.

If I were a boy I'd wear like this every autumn and winter day for the rest of my life. Or untill the next Burberry Prorsum show.It's some kind of a fact that (at least for me) the very best, trendy and more beautiful outwear is in every Burberry Prorsum collection. I mean, they have donde this of houndreds of years! And Christopher-marry-me-Bayley really knows what he is doing (have you realized he's my idol?)Do you dare to doubt my word? Well, here I leave you my favourite (and key) pieces from the last 3 autumn collections.

I asked my friend Juanitowhy I had not seen this beautiful collection before, and he answered that he had not idea why neither knew it before, and you know? That's kind of a sin, since it has become one of my Paris favourites. Well, do you wanna know what I'm talking about? It's the perfect beautiful gorgeous collection from Berluti.Berlutti is a brand as old as Burberry or Louis Vuitton. Created in 1895, originally made only men boots and shoes, adding afterwards all kinds of leather goods and in 1993 it was acquired by the LMVH group.The responsable of such pretty garments is the awesome Alessandro Sartori, do you remember he used to be the creative director of Z Zegna? Probably not, but he launched the brand and the younger Ermenegildo Zegna line is what it is now because of him. Well, the dude knows what he is doing. Since 2011 he is the artistic director at Berluti and he follows the brand's luxury total look.For spring 2013 Sartori brings us deep colours: petrol,green, burnt orange and burgundy mixed with neutral brown, beige, sand and grey. My favourite looks are the total-petrol look (shirt, bow tie and suit), the melange pastel blue blazer, brown bomber with pastel blue trousers, the brown leather trench coat and (of course) the burgundy safari jacquet. All this looks have ageless key items perfectly refreshed for the new season and for the new elegant and modern man. And the accessories! Ufff! Gorgeous!What do you think about this collection? Did you like it? Which are your favourite looks? Are you already a fan like me?

It seems I'll never know how the hell does Elie-he's-like-a-couture-god-Saab does such beautifully perfect collections. His work has a clear Saab style and every season he does it better and better: the silhouettes, the colours, materials and the embroideries... He's SO old style couture, I mean ACTUAL couture: you know, all hand sewn, embroidered, one-of-a-kind. Just plain beauty.For the autumn/winter 2012 couture collection he went for the black, nude, peach, teal, taupe and lots of GOLD (yeah, glitter!). We also saw the classical Saab: the full-tulle-skirt dress, the deep-front-décolletage dress and the Grace-Kelly-would-die-for-this bridal dress.I know my odd descriptions are not enough for this designer, and his work is SO pretty that this post deserves full close-ups of details AND a .gif.He's THAT good.

Si lo abren en una pestaña nueva lo verán ent amaño ENORME. / If you open it in a new tab you'll see it in HUGE size.

Today I've decided I want this party for my birthday (and some of my friends' birthday too). You already know I'm SO into this 18th century style: I want the deco, the place, the pastel colours and (of course) the outfits. Everything like taken from the Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette" film.I'm very serious with this birthday-costume-halloween party: I even made a pinterest pin board.

This is only a preview... or something like that. I leave you a .gif with a look from every single London menswear catwalk from Spring 2013. I know, I know, I totally owe you a decent full post with my classic images of 6 looks from each collection. Just wait a little bit. In the meantime, take a look from the spring 2012 London collections.

There is something odd about all Juun J. pattern making, and exactly that is what makes his work so perfect beautiful and awesome. Nothing is what it seems: not the lapels, the hems or the zippers are as simple as we think at first sight.

Who is Nora Noh?Well, that's an excellent question since findig info on the web is actually hard. Come on, try it, you'll find only a few matches with the person we're talking about.Nora Noh is a fashion designer falling into oblivion.Shes was the very first female fashion designer in Korea; nowadays we can totally enjoy Woo Young Mi in menswear, but back in the 60's she was very trendy. She studied in Paris and in 1956 returning Korea she opened her boutique and presented her first fashion show and after that all the 60's and 70's were hers, slowly and silently disappearing around the end of the 80's and now, well she's making a discrete comeback with a documentary directed by Kim Sung Hee (some more info here)Just look at those dresses: they are perfect fitting sizes with the "A" line dress classically from the 60's, elegant with simple fabrics (most of her work is made with 100% cotton fabrics) following her theory that "a fashionable dress is one that can be worn confortable".And she is still SO right.

Like a religious fanatic as soon as the new Jack White solo album "Blunderbuss" was available I ran to the music store and bought it. Yes, not iTunes music, but music with a physical beautiful booklet with black and blue photos of super pale Jack who doesn't know that sunlight is for free."Missing Pieces" is the first track and since the beginning of the organ melody I loved it (even though it is not my very-most-ultra-super-favourite track), I mean just check the lyric:

"Sometimes someone control everything about you

and when they tell you that they just can't live without you

they ain't lyin', they'll take pieces of you

and they'll stang above you and walk away

that's right, and take a part of you with them."

Creepy, uh? Well, truth is sometimes creepy. And even when it comes in the form of the odd high voice of Jack White.

In theory tomorrow will open the brand new Stradivarius store in Buenavista, Mexico City. This is the only Inditex store that hasn't arrived to Mexico and it also is my favorite one (not only for the reference to the baroque violin maker, actually I became a total fan last autumn in Barcelona), it's very cheap, stylish and SO my style (even the basics, so you can imagine). There is only another one here in Mexico in Parque Tezontle ("Where is Parque Tezontle?" you may ask, and the answer in the world of emoticons would be o.O, or "I don't have the slightest idea"), but this one in Forum Buenavista is very centric and near the train, metrobus and subway. Perfect, isn't it?Anyway, I'm dying to shop some styles there and here I share them with you:

I have two important questions: Why do The Body Shop stores smell like strawberry shortcake? And, how do they do it for me to get in the store and buy 4 extra things I didn't need?I have some theories:1. The owner is Voldemort and with magic he makes us want everything.2. The strawberry shortcake smell melts your brain.3. All the testing makes you feel addict to the product before buying it.4. The smallest the container, the more you want it.Well, I'm quite sharp, you cannot deny it.Anyway, the point is that this afternoon I got in a Body Shop looking for a body butter and a liquid eyeliner ('cause mine makes me cry and I feel kind of ridiculous looking like in a romantic comedy but without a young version of Hugh Grant), but I left with two cocoa butter Body Butters, two Born Lippies and an England flag reusable bag. And with no liquid eyeliner.I tell you: this store is the absolute doom. And I love it.